150 Years Later, Newspaper Retracts Gettysburg Address Diss

By: Ari Shapiro
November 14, 2013

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Seven score and ten years ago, a Pennsylvania newspaper described the Gettysburg Address as nothing more than the "silly remarks" of President Lincoln. Now, The Patriot-News of Harrisburg would like to take that back.

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